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Default Miss Manners on "who gets the wine"

On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:03:04 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> Pricey or not, it takes a lot of nerve for a dinner guest to give away
> something that his host paid for. Even if splitting the bill he should
> have consulted the host. He really had no business doing that.
> However.... if the host knew in advance that he was only going to drink
> one glass of wine he obviously isn't much of a wine drinker so I have to
> wonder why he would have taken it home for himself and why he worried
> about it.


It probably was probably a "split", not a fifth and they were probably
"intimate". <if you know what I mean> It still doesn't excuse his
bad behavior because my husband (for one) would always check with me
to see if I wanted to bring it home or leave it there if a significant
amount of wine was left in the bottle.


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